Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind 5" l x 2" wide

5" l x 2" wide x 1 3/8" tall and in very good condition

mid 19th century or so I believe

or to keep your Scrabble partner from taking forever

and overall a fair amount of surface wear to the wood

but fine for resting one's feet

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind 5" l x 2" wideI like all different sorts of books for all different sorts of reasons, but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties most immediately that hand printed paper cover, making it seem like a wall paper box of the very early and most beautiful variety. (It looks almost like wax resist printing in appearance, with the natural cream of the paper revealed as circles through the applied golden honey color of the cover.) And then